Powder River in WyomingMontana and Wyoming have a problem, there's not enough water to go around.
The lawsuit in the US Supreme Court claims Wyoming is infringing on Montana's water rights by taking more from the Tongue and Powder rivers than allowed under the 1950 Yellowstone River Compact.
"'We're running out of water,'' said Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer. 'It's getting worse every year as Wyoming is using more and more water. ... Our farmers and ranchers who depend on this water for irrigation are having difficulty raising their crops.'
Both states have suffered from a prolonged drought dating to 1999. Wyoming State Engineer Patrick Tyrell said that in recent years due to the drought, only a "small fraction'' of Wyoming's water users in the Powder and Tongue river basins received the water they needed.
No, DIP. This isn't a repeat of the Dirty Thirties much as you would like to believe that. There's nothing isolated about this phenomenon, it's global. Your cherry picking approach may be necessary to conjure up benign explanations but it's way off mark.
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